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A share of the spoils at the Shay Stadium keeps Wrexham in sixth place in the National League and extends their unbeaten run to nine, yet Keates will know it should have been much better despite the Dragons sitting just three points off early leaders Macclesfield Town.

“I think frustrated, I think we were comfortable for long periods of the game, (played in) decent areas, but didn’t make it count,” said Keates. “As I said I thought we were comfortable for long periods in that game.

“It is frustrating, but we are not losing games. We need to find a goal or two from somewhere and maybe we are lacking a little bit of belief in front of goal

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“We were on the front foot, we were bright, the first 20 minutes we were comfortable, very, very comfortable being away from home, we looked the more promising team.

“Maybe the last 10 minutes of the game it became a bit more stretched, they had one or two breaks themselves, but we had opportunities but we didn’t take them.

“We looked comfortable at the back, we looked structured and organised but we didn’t take the opportunities we created.”

Dean Keates (Image: Dan Westwell)

Wrexham are the third lowest scorers in the National League with only 11 goals in their 14 games, yet they comfortably hold the best defensive record having shipped only seven efforts.

The Dragons leading scorer so far is on loan striker Alex Reid with three. And the Fleetwood Town youngster should have added to his tally on Tuesday in West Yorkshire, missing a gilt-edged chance late on as he raced clean through on Sam Johnson’s goal.